Tubular knit ribbed fabric



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This invention relates to tubular rib knit `fabric from which articles of wearing apparel such as cardigan sembles, etc. are made.

The fabric, forming the subject of my invention, comprises the use oftwo different and independent threads, or multiples thereof,

wherein one thread of a pair appears on the outside face of the fabric as a background for o a design which is formed by the other thread of the pair being drawn to the said outside face of the fabric. On the reverse, or inside,

v face of the fabric the thread which forms the design on the outside 'faceforms the background on the inside face, and the thread which forms the background on the outside face of the fabric forms the design on the inside face of the fabric. The design 'appearing on' the inside facelies directly; behind the design appearing on the outside face.

The formation of the desiigns on the opposite faces of the fabric is e ected by means except where the design appears and at such places the designed portion of the inside face of the fabric is composed of regular stitches, while on the outside face of the fabric the background is composed of regular stitches and the design is formed of tuck stitches, thus the opposite faces of the fabric are the reverse of each other. Obviously the order may be reversed, i. e. theoutside face may be composed of tuck stitches and the inside face may be composed of regular stitches. In carrying out my invention, to obtain a certain desirable effect, I employa silk, or

rayon, thread Aand a wool thread as each pair of threads. I arrange the threads in such a manner that the rayon or silk thread will be thrown to the inslde face predomi- \\nately and the wool thread will be thrown '45 to the outside face, thus on the outside face the design appears in silk on a background of wool and on the inside face the design appirs in wool on a background of rayon or s1 In producing` the fabric I may employ a standard well-known make of knitting majackets, sweaters, en-

`-in drawings, of whlch:

of tucking, for example, the inside face of the fabric may be composed of tuck stitchesnrnnnn :snare chine modied andequip d'with-certain attachments formingv the subiaect of a co ndin divisional application, Ser. No. 542,3 5, file June 5, 1931, which will be fully disclosed hereinafter. Y

The fabric forming the subject ofthe present application will be fully disclosed herein-- after reference being had to the accompany- Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic view form of design depicted thereon;

Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view of the inside wales of the fabric with'the design depicted thereon in reverse Fig. 1; and Fig. -3- is a diagrammatic view of the fabric illustrating the stitch formation. For' the purpose of simplicity the description will be confined to a fabric as vmade on a machine having'but two thread feeds such yas that shown and describedin' the above noted copendin application. Referring to ig. 3, the fabric is composed of a pair of independent threads illustrated l respectively as B and F, the thread B hereafter being referred to for the purpose of illustration as rayon, and the thread F bein referred to as wool, the rayon being delivere to the dial and cylinder needles as the leading feed and the wool as .the second feed.

The cylinder and dial wales are indicated asCandDinFig. 3.

A course b of stitches is illustrated at the lower portion of Fig. 3 as being composed of 35 the rayon thread B.

In feeding the thread F to the needles fon the formation of the next course f alternate stitches of the course b are held on the cylinder needles while the dial needles knit'regu- 90 lar stitches. l

In the formation of the-next course b1 of stitches vformed of the rayon thread B all the'needles, both cylinder and dial, cast their stitches in the regular manner, thus on each of the cylinderneedles .a tuck stitch T is formed, thus the rayon thread B is carriedto the inside or back face of the fabric and the wool thread F is forced to the outer'face of .the fabric, the tension created in the thread 10o l 0 of the fabric il-l-ustratmg the outside wales with a simple to the'design shown innen forming the tuck stitches T having the effect of drawing thread from the adjacent regular stitches R which are formed on the dial needles, thus burying the regular stitches R in the fabric so that the regular stitches R of the rayon4 will be hidden on the front face of the fabric and the regular stitches R1 of the wool thread F will predominate on the front or outside face of the fabric. In this manner those parts of the fabric in which no deslgn appears the wool thread F constitutes the background as illustrated in Figyl, and the stitches T on the back face of the fabric, as

illustrated at R2 2, these regular stitches Blz-R2 bging formed on the cylinder needles next adjacent to the dial needles on which the tuck stitchesV T1 1 are formed. v

In the same manner as above described, the re lar stitches R formedof the rayon, and lying adjacent the tuck stitches T1 are buried under the regular stitches R"-R2 of which the design is formed on the back face of the fabric, thus on the front face of the fabric the background is composed of regular stitches of wool thread'F and the design on said face is formed of tuck stitches of rayon landon the back face of the fabric the background is formed of tuck'stitches with the rayon thread and the design isformed of regular stitches of the wool thread, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the design on the back face lying directly behind the design on the 'front face. 1

The fabric above described obviously is reversible, as the design is clearly depicted on both faces of the fabric, and while the fabric has been described, for the purpose of illustration, as being composed of 'a wool thread and a rayon thread any` desiredcombination may be utilizedwithout sacrificing the design effect. While the wool and rayon combination accentuates the contrast between the design and the surrounding. background other desirable effects may be obtained bythe use of two threads of the same characterbut of different colors and in other cases two threads of the same character and the same color may e be'employed. In the latter case the design is l depicted solely by the difference existing between the stitch ofwhich the background is' composed and the stitch ofwhich the design is composed, the two different forms of stitches showing up distinctly one against the other on each of the opposite faces of the fabric. e

While the fabric has been .described as being of a large diameter for the lpurpose of Alng design making sweaters, etc., obviously the princi` ples described are adaptable to narrow tubular goods, such as neckties, etc.

I claim z.

1. A tubular knit ribbed fabric having a design formed of tuck stitches and a surrounding background formed of regular stitches on one of its faces and a correspondformed of regular' stitches and a surrounding background formed of tuck stitches on the opposite face ofthe fabric, the design on the second said face of the fabric lying directly behind the design on the first e said face of the fabric.

l 2. tubular knit ribbed fabric composed of a pair of independent threads interknit with each other to form fabric, said fabric having a design formed on one of its faces by tuck stitches composed of one of said threads and a surrounding background formed of regular stitches composed. of the other of said threads, and a corresponding design formed on its opposite'face directly behind the design on the first said face, the design on the second said face being formed of regular stitches composed of the lthread forming the back round on the rst said faceand a surroun ing background formed of tuck stitches composed of the'` thread forming the design on the first said face of the fabric..

3. A tubular knit ribbed fabriccomposed .f

of a pair of independent threads interknit with each other to form fabric, said fabric having a design formed on one of its faces by tuck stitches composed of one of said threads and a surrounding background formed of regular stitches composed of the other of said threads, and a corresponding design formed on its opposite face directly behind the design on t e first said face, the design on the second said face being formed of regular stitches composed of the thread forming the background on thev first said face anda surrounding background formed of tuck stitches composed of the thread forming the. design on the first said face of the fabric, the tuck stitches forming the design on the first said face being formed on alternate wales of the yfabric and the regular stitches forming the design on the reverse face of the fabric being disposed on alternate wales of the second said face lying intermediate the wales on which the design on the first said face of the fabric are disposed.

4. A tubular knit ribbed fabric composed of a pair of independent threads interknit with each other to form fabric, said fabric having a design formed on one of its faces by tuck stitches composed of one of said threads and a surrounding "background formed ofA regular stitches composed of the other of saidl threads, and a corresponding design formedv on its opposite face directly behind the design on the first said face, the

design on the second said face being formed v of regularl stitches composed of the' thread forming the background on the first said face and a surrounding background formed of tuck stitches composed` of the thread forming the design on the first said face of the fabric, thetuck stitches forming the design on the first said face being formed on alternate wales of the fabric and the regular stitches forming the design on the reverse face of the fab-v ric beingdisposed on alternate wales of the second said face lying intermediate the wales on which the design on the first said face of the fabric are disposed, each design forming tuck stitch on the rst said face of the fabric having a design forming regular stitch disposed to each side thereof on. the reverse face of the fabric. v

JOSEPH SAFTLAS. 

